Edible fat complex and process of making same.



r' smarts I TON: ELLIS, 0F MONTCLAIR, JERSEY.

EDELE FAT COMPLEX AND PROCESS OF MAKING- SAME.

memos.

To all whom it ma concern.

Be it'hown t at I, CARLETON ELLIS, a

.citizen of the United States, and a resident of Montclair, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Edible Fat Complex and the like and Processes of Making Same, of which the following is a specification This invention relates to an oily or fatty product, especially an edible product, and fatty substances intended for industrial purposes and to the process of making same and relates particularly to composite oils deodorized or improved 1n consistency by polymerization especially in conjunction with the step of hydrogenation or similar saturating treatment. v

This application, so far as the. polymerization of oils is concerned, is a continuation of certain matterfiled July 26, 1912 now Patent No. 1,052, i69 for process of making edible oils, etc., such continuity existing by virtue of my copending application No. 718,228, filed September 3, 1912 for hydro" genated fatty food product, now matured into Letters Patent 1,067,978 of July 22, 1913, and from which the subject matter of the present application especially as eoncerns'the' production of polymerized and hydrogenated oils has been immediately derived.

Unsaturated oils such as the glycerids containing more especially two or more double bondings or olefin groupings are cav pable of polymerization at elevated temperatures resulting in a thickening of the oil apparently due not so much to the formation of stearin as to the formation of oil complexes by the union of oil molecules one with another, usually denoted by a profound reduction of the iodin number and other changes. 7

In this manner castor, fish, whale, cotton, corn, linseed, rape and tung oil and the like may be polymerized to difiering degrees and by such polymerization a thickening of the oil usually occurs which thickening produces a body of viscosity that enables hydrogenation, if carried out, to yield a product containing a fatty derivative of good texture or consistency and a hardened prod- Specification of Letters Ita'cent.

* Patented Aug. 24%, 11915;.

Application filed April 19, 1913. Serial No, 762,296.

uct which is not nearly so likely'to grain undeslrably as so-frequently occurs wlth many purely hydrogenated products, which graining as I have noted the latter above mentioned Letters Patent, is often objectionable in edible fats.

The polymerized oil further saturated, if desired by hydrogenation or by hydroxylation may be used in making lubricants, or

the product may be sulfonated by treatment with sulfuric acid or soaps may be prepared from the 'material by saponificatlon with alkalis. By deodorization the oil may be rendered better ada ted as an edible product. 'While the po ymerization treatment, with or without hydrogenation, improves the odor of the oil in most cases, it is desirable in preparing an edible product to re move all traces of objectionable odors or any disagreeable taste and this if required may be secured by blowing the oil under'hi h vacuum with superheated steam preferab y at a temperature of 315 C. or h1gher,fol-

lowed, if desired, by rapid chilling in order to prevent acquisition of odors during slow cooling. 1 j

My product is also of use in soap making for the reason that hardened or hydrogenated oil produced by hydrogenation is got ree "capable of yielding soaps having as lathering qualities as desired, while the polymerized and hardened hydrogenated oil I.

of substantially the same consistency or degree' of hardness shows superior lathering qualities when converted into'soap.

To remove the odor from fish and whale oil by hydrogenation requires a considerable conversion'to stearin. Usually it is necessary to reduce the iodin number of fish oil to about 50 in order to convert the unsaturated bodies such as clupanodonic glycerid which are supposed to be more or less odor producing into more saturated or entirely saturated bodies rendering the oil free from disagreeable fishy odor. But hydrogenation to this point produces so large a proportion of stearin which lathers freely as asoap only in very hot water that the product is deficient in lathering and consequent detergent properties. By olymerization the property of cold lathermg existent in the soaps produced from normal fish 'is a serviceable addition to various edible products as mentioned in Letters Patent No. 1;0e7,97s.

As an illustrative example fish oil may be heated to about 250 C. for '12 hours in an atmosphere of hydrogen and-maythen be'hydrogenated by treating for 2h'ours ate somewhat lower temperature with hydrogen gas using voluminous nickel, oxid asa catalyzer,

01' whale oil may be heated at 260 C. for

2-0v 11%;118 inan atmosphere of hydrogen or of a ydrogen containing -gas; or whale 011 may -be--heated to 250 C. in the presence of a-catalyzer-and hydrogen for 4*hours. Preferably the hydrogen is passed through a 'bodyof the oilin such a manner as to keep the catalyzer, which should he finely d1- disseminated through vided, thoroughl' the body of oil. s a. catalyzer or source of catalyticsubstance beside nickel :oxid material,- palladium, iron and the like may be employed. t

.='By operating in this manner it is possible to condense or combine oils ofdissimilar nature to produce entirelyfnewedlble or other products. Sufficient other .oil may be cominedwith whale oil or other oils capable of polymerizing this :manner to produce complexes the condensation of 01.lS

of different origin. Such composite polymerized products or complexes may if desired "be hydrogenated or hydroxylated. to any suitable extent.

Such new products-form a part of the present invention. .For example, 2 parts of fish oil and 1 part of whale oil may be polymerized by heatingat about 250 C. for 18' hours in the presenceof an inert gas, that is to say, with oxygen excluded. Similarly fish oil or whale oil may be combined more or less with corn or'ootton-seed oil, or the more strongly drying oils and then if desiredsult- .ably hydrogenated. p

The marine animal 0118 referred :to herein comprise polymerizaldle oils derived from any part of fish or ywhale oroils of a simi lar character adapted for the purposes hereof.

To recapitulate, my invention involves or comprises the polymerization of-oils, particularly fatty oils such as those having iodin .numbers from 1-00 and upward. to formv preferably edible fat complexes, such polymerization.preferably taldng place at a temperature .ofabout 250? C. and the action being facilitated ifdesired by means of catalyzers and preferably hydrogenating theresultmg complex which hydrogen addition may take place preferably either simultane ously or subsequent to polymerization; and my invention further involves the combiningof two or more oils by polymerization or condensation so as to form preferably edible products containing oils 0 different origin in chemical combination, .due to such-condensation or polymerization and further invorlves the hydrogenation -or hydroxylation or other hardening ofsuch complex products of condensation.

. What I claim'is': 1. edible fat ture comprising'poymerized oil and 'hydrogenatedoil.

2; A fatty-product of a compositenature comprising a polymerized and hydrogen ated oil.

4:. more oils, combined by hydrogenated oil.

'5. A fatty product comprising'a genated olymerized oil composite.

6. A. attyproductcompri g hydrogenated, polymerized oil composite material comprising two or more fatty oils.

roduct of composite ina- 3. A fatty product comprising hydrogen .ated,lpolymer1zed oil. t

' fatty productcomprising-two or condensation;

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7. A'fa'tty product comprising 'polyme'r- -8. The process of: preparing edible oils which comprises-heat polymerizing a -com. posite ,oil in aninertgas;

merizable marine animal .oil with another may "on by heat thereof. v 10. 'The process of treating oils to adapt them for edible purposes which comprises interpolymerizing andhydrogenating a-mixture of two or more pdlymerizable oils in a reducing I gaseous atmosphere substantially devoidof oil rdiscoloring agents.

11. The process of treating oils-to adapt.

them for edible purposes hich "comprises heat polymerizing said oil in a reducing as. g 12. 'The processxof treating fatty "oils which comprises heat polymerizing mixed fatty oilsin a reducing atmosphere.

13. The process of preparing edible fats which comprises heat polymerizingand hydrogenating fatty oils a gaseous atmosphere substantially devoid of 011 discolormg agent.

.pdlymerizing a mixture .105 -9..-'Dhe processrof'prep oily or fatty J material which comprises .com' ining-a:p.oly-

14. The process of treating oils which sex and State of New Jersey this 16th day comprises pollymerizilkgl an oily mixing? of April A. D. 1913. comprlsmg o ymenza e manne annna o1 by heating at approximately 250 C. for GABLETON ELLIS" about 18 hours in the presence of a gas free Witnesses:

from oxygen. R M. ELLIS,

Signed at Montclair in the county of Es- A. A. WELLS. 

